Some Legends Never Die (Monsters and Mayhem Book 2) by E.A. Comiskey

Author:E.A. Comiskey [Comiskey, E.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarsdale Publishing, Ltd
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Maddie took the plate of heated-up stuffing and pie out from under Richard’s nose and replaced it with a bowl of turkey and rice soup. She set a small glass of prune juice next to it and started to walk away.

“Hey!” he protested. “What gives?”

She called back from the kitchen, an annoying, disembodied voice of reason, “You’re going to tie yourself in knots and end up sick if you keep eating like you have been. The feast is over. Time to take care of your tummy.”

“Humph,” Richard groused. “Ain’t worried about my ‘tummy’ for seventy years, but apparently I’m in the second grade again.”

“I can hear you,” she called.

“Good!” he shouted back.

Burke picked up her spoon and started eating in weird robotic motions that sent shivers down his spine.

“Burke, do you remember what you told us about your table mate at last night’s dinner?” Stanley asked.

Burke nodded without breaking the rhythm of scooping, swallowing, pausing, scooping...

Maddie set a bowl of soup at her own place and took her seat. “So, Burke and I were talking, and we agree that she’s very lucky to have met Albert. Who would have thought a car accident could be so serendipitous? I was just telling her that I think she ought to—”

The doorbell rang before they learned what it was Burke ought to do, feel, obsess over, or believe according to her mother. Maddie dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a cloth napkin embroidered with a grinning pilgrim couple and dashed off toward the front of the house. Stanley met Richard’s eye and then stood and followed her, one hand tucked in the pocket of his trousers where he, no doubt, hid some sort of weapon.

Richard watched Burke. She stared straight ahead and continued slurping soup. He wondered if they should hogtie the girl and get her out of town. True, she could take either one of them in a fair fight, probably both of them together, but there was a time when dirty tricks were the order of the day.

A soft murmur of voices rose up from the other room, drawing his attention in that direction. No one screamed or fired a gun, so presumably the visitor was a friendly. Stanley confirmed that by taking his hand out of his pocket and extending it toward whomever had entered. A moment later, Luke entered, hat in hand, and nodded in his direction.

“Good to see you again, Richard. I’m terribly sorry to have interrupted a meal. I simply wanted to bring Maddie a thank you gift for the lovely dinner the other day.”

Maddie bustled by with her arms full of red roses. “This seems like more than a little thank you, Luke. My goodness. You probably could have bought groceries for a week with what these cost.”

He twisted the cap he held. “It’s not like I can’t afford it. Worked all those hours for all those years. Might as well spend it on the people I care about. Not like I can take it with me.

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